Soon snow will be falling, all around, and they will be children playing, having fun! It’ll be the season of love and understanding - Merry Christmas! Everyone! Too soon? With Chrimbo only 76 days away, it’s certainly not too early for game publishers to start their big push for this very lucrative period.

Screen Digest know this. The media analyst publication has produced a report that shows what we can expect from the next-gen consoles in the next three months. The Wii will see the most titles released in the final quarter, with a massive tally of 86 titles. That is almost double that of the 360 (47 titles) and the PS3 (38 titles). These figures mean that not only has Wii surpassed the 360 in terms of console units sold, it’s on course to overtake them on the software front too.  By early 2008, it is predicted that the Wii’s library of games will be bigger than the 360’s.

The “quality over quantity” maxim must be mentioned, and you can guarantee that a proportion of the Wii titles will be shoddy games, trying to cash in on the wave of success the console is riding at the moment. With a quarter of Wii releases being exclusive to the console, however, it does show that it is the console of choice for developers at the moment. If you compare those figures with the 360 (8 exclusive titles) and PS3 (5 exclusives), the situation becomes clearer. The question is whether developers are making games for the Wii because of the lower development costs and its similarities with known hardware (the Cube), or because of it’s growing fanbase. Either way, Wii owners will be getting a lot more choice this Christmas.

Source: Games Industry, excellent picture from Extralife

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This entry was posted on Tuesday, October 9th, 2007 at 12:12 pm by WiiWii
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